Guidelines January to April 2011 (PDF Download)

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Guidelines is a unique Bible reading resource that offers four months of in-depth study written by leading scholars. Contributors are drawn from around the world, as well as the UK, and represent a stimulating and thought-provoking breadth of Christian tradition.

Instead of the usual dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into at least six sections, plus an introduction giving context for the passage and a final section of points for thought and prayer.

On any day you can read as many or as few sections as you wish, to fit in with work or home routine. As well as a copy of Guidelines, you will need a Bible. Each contributor also suggests books for further study.

Published every four months (in January, May and September), commissioned by Canon Dr Jeremy Duff and edited by Lisa Cherrett.

Contents of this issue:

Genesis 12 - 24: Abraham for today
Alec Gilmore
3 - 16 January

Luke's strange and sacred journeys
Joanna Collicutt
17 - 23 January

Apologetics
Amy Orr-Ewing
24 January - 6 February

Matthew 15 - 20
Peter Walker
7 - 27 February

Psalms 26 - 37
Henry Wansbrough
28 February - 13 March

Hebrews
Jeremy Duff
14 March - 3 April

Success
Tom Wilson
4 - 10 April

Finding peace of mind
Lisa Cherrett
11 - 17 April

Holy Week to Easter: 'Love was his meaning'
Janet Fletcher
18 April - 1 May

About the contributors in this issue

Alec Gilmore is a Baptist minister, author, lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague. His most recent book is A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2007)

Joanna Collicutt, an Anglican priest, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Religion at Heythrop College. Previously she worked as a consultant clinical psychologist, specialising in the needs of people with complex disabilities. She has a particular interest in psychological approaches to Bible reading.

Amy Orr-Ewing is Training Director for the Zacharias Trust and is involved in evangelism, apologetics and teaching both in the UK and abroad. She is a lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, and lives in London with her husband and three boys.

Peter Walker is Associate Vice-Principal and Director of Development at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he lectures in New Testament Studies and Biblical Theology. He has a special interest in the historical Jesus. As a qualified tour guide around Israel, he leads student groups on tours every other year.

Henry Wansbrough OSB is a monk at Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire. He is Executive Secretary of the International Commission for Producing an English-Language Lectionary (ICPEL) for the Roman Catholic Church, and lectures frequently across the globe.

Jeremy Duff is a vicar in Widnes with a teaching and writing ministry, which has included posts at Liverpool Cathedral and within Oxford University. His writings include Meeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God (SPCK, 2006) and The Elements of New Testament Greek (CUP, 2005).

Tom Wilson is currently Curate to the Toxteth Team, a group of three churches in inner-city Liverpool. He also teaches Biblical Studies for the Regional Training Partnership. He enjoys teaching, training and helping people to develop their gifts and deepen their relationship with Jesus.

Lisa Cherrett has worked for BRF since 1997 as Project Editor and, in more recent years, as Managing Editor for the Bible reading notes. She is a member of the lay ministry team at her local Baptist church.

Janet Fletcher is a priest at Prescot in Liverpool Diocese, and coordinator of the Diocesan Spiritual Director Training Course. She offers spiritual direction and quiet days, and leads courses on prayer and spirituality. She has written Pathway to God: Following the Way in Prayer (SPCK, 2006).

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Endorsements

This regular reading of the Bible anchors my spiritual life. The Bible Reading Fellowship has consistently enabled me to hear God's word and I would not be without their help. I am deeply grateful to their editors and writers over many years.
Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary

I find Guidelines a very useful resource for my personal devotions. The combination of an academic consideration of the text with practical comments on issues of faith and discipleship provides me me with helpful encouragement, stimulation and challenge at the start of the day.
Revd Dr Christopher Blake, Principal, Cliff College, Derbyshire

Author info

Guidelines is commissioned by Revd Dr Jeremy Duff, writer, teacher, and a vicar in the South Widnes Team, and edited by Lisa Cherrett, Managing Editor of Bible reading notes at BRF.

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Reviews

I was introduced to the Bible Reading Fellowship by the late Ian Thomson about 40 years ago. Since then, I have read Guidelines daily. This regular reading of the Bible anchors my spiritual life. The Bible Reading Fellowship has consistently enabled me to hear God's word and I would not be without their help. I am deeply grateful to their editors and writers over many years.

Reviewed by Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

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'I have read daily from Guidelines for many years and have always found it helpful and often thought-provoking.'

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'Many excellent contributions'

'I have really appreciated each day and have found much to think about.'

'All your commentators are good, and I appreciate the daily notes very much.'

Book details

• ISBN: 9780857460004Z
• Published: 19 November 2010
• Status:
• Format: PDF Download
• Pages: 160